I had a NPCC member just tell me on my Facebook something like “Andy is a great and godly man and I trust his decisions 100%”.
Sorry, but that worries me. I have always liked Andy, I have listened to him speak, I have several of his videos and books. I don’t even question that he is a conservative (yet).
But having said this, he REALLY got this wrong. It worries me that people like my friend look at Andy and think because he is a good man and has been an outstanding leader, that he is infallible. He is allowing a person to come into their church and teach a world view that is in direct opposition to God’s word.
I really REALLY hope people in his congregation are confronting him instead of blowing it off as this friend did. I don’t want to see Andy Stanley going off the deep end like Rick Warren did.
He should heed the words of his own father: http://www.christianpost.com/article/20100703/influential-pastor-warns-americans-of-socialism-departure-from-god/
Good food for thought. I will carefully consider that.
I completely agree with you. I have attended NPCC on and off for 15 years and I have not seen Andy take any direct conservative side to his sermons. In fact He has an increasingly “one world” message that really botheres me so much I started attending his father’s church instead. I think that Andy is falling down a path of wanting to be “cool” and “politically correct”. He is really leading a large group of Atlanta’s youth in the wrong direction! If you really listen to his sermons with a clear conservative view, then it becomes obvious he is walking a fine line not to offend his liberal members and in fact favors that view. I think Andy’s church tries to be “attractive” to the general community just like Randy Pope’s church- Perimeter Church. It is all just “too cool for school” if you know what I mean.